routed && route6d removal proposal

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Mon Jun 22 19:26:22 UTC 2020


> 22.06.2020 19:49, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > Whats unmaintained about code that has no need to change cause it just pretty much works?
> 
> Have you actually tried running routed(8) as base for real network with loops,
> mix of p2p and ethernet-like interfaces, IPv4 aliases, need of offset-lists and
> with diameter about 6 hops?

As I said I know of people that are running and it is working, and
Hiroko's post clearly establishes that as fact in evidence.

I am not even sure that RIP* has loop detection in the protocol,
as the prefered routing protocol for anything multipath (which
is what loops are in effect) is OSPF.

> 
> I'm not talking about RIPv2 inherent deficiencies.
> Our routed just glitches where quagga's ripd just works.

And your PR# for reporting the bug is?


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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